I spent most of last week at MIX11, one of Microsoft's big developer conferences. As part of the week's festivities I was able to showcase RestSharp in a new event Microsoft put on to showcase over 50 different .NET open source projects called Open Source Fest. While planning for the event I decided I wanted find a way to draw... Continue reading

Last week I hopped on a bus in Minneapolis that had left from Chicago earlier that day and was on its way to Austin, TX for South by Southwest Interactive. In addition to the Chicago bus, five others departed from all over the country as part of the second edition of Startup Bus. Startup Bus is what happens when you... Continue reading

Earlier this year, we announced the first 3 companies to receive funding from the Twilio Startup Fund, a micro-fund created by Dave McClure's 500Startups investment company. Today we're proud to announce that seven more Twilio-powered companies have been added to the fund. Each company will receive $10,000 in funding, and one will be chosen to receive $50,000 and a spot... Continue reading

This past Wednesday, Twilio partnered with OnCompare to sponsor a LAUNCH Conference after party. OnCompare is “Yelp for Software as a Service.” You build an incredible service, and they’ll point users to it. Dozens of cutting edge, never-before-seen, technology companies (including OnCompare!) all launched at the conference, and we wanted to celebrate with them! We held the party at Bloodhound,... Continue reading

Last week I had the privilege of presenting "Intro to Building Twilio Apps with ASP.NET MVC" at mvcConf 2, a virtual conference for ASP.NET MVC developers with over 3000 registered attendees. The talk covered some ways that you can leverage features of the ASP.NET MVC framework to make it easier to build voice and SMS apps. You can watch a... Continue reading

Dusty Candland is the founder of Red27 Consulting in Denver, CO. Recently Dusty was working on an app called SMSBet.info that uses Node.js with Twilio. Dusty wrote this post to help you get started writing your own Twilio apps running on Node. Recently while working on a Functional Mockup for SMSBet.info, we decided to use Node.js and Twilio. Combining these... Continue reading

Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so why not give your better half the gift of a Twilio app? It's cheaper than a box of chocolates and lasts longer than flowers. Spice things up with a sultry SMS sender, or let someone down gently with an automated "let's bee friends" phone call. Bonus points for putting together helpful materials (screencasts, blog posts, etc.) that demonstrate the entry. The winner of this week's contest will receive an Amazon Kindle 3G and $100 in Twilio credit. Entries must be submitted by 11:59pm PT on Sunday February 13th. Entries can be submitted... Continue reading

We have a bevy of events coming up so I wanted to highlight some of the talks and sessions some of the Twilio team will be facilitating in the near future. MIX11 – We need your help! MIX is Microsoft's big web-focused conference happening this April. This year they're holding open call for sessions for which you can vote for... Continue reading

Today we're excited to release Twilio Subaccounts, a powerful developer productivity tool that is perfect for Twilio customers who are building multi-tenant web services and need the ability to track usage of each user independently from one another. Subaccounts also help those of you who are powering several projects under one account and want to divide up usage of phone... Continue reading

We've seen a few Twilio apps that integrate with door buzzer systems to send the right touchtones to let people through locked doors. Billy Chasen took that concept to another level. He built a system that uses SMS to control a physical door lock via an embedded web server connected to a servo motor connected to the lock. Billy wrote... Continue reading

UPDATE: We heard from many of you that the late start to this contest didn't give you enough time to create an entry. We've decided to push the entry deadline back to this Sunday, January 30th at 11:59pm PT. The category for this week's Twilio Developer Contest is Coordinating People. This category is near and dear to me personally as... Continue reading

The session videos from Cloudstock have been posted on their site. Here are the videos of the Twilio sessions. Making Money with SaaS Jeff Lawson, CEO Jeff discusses what developers should consider when pricing new SaaS offerings, and shares insights on how he approached setting prices at Twilio Building a Great API Evan Cooke, CTO Many APIs tend to be... Continue reading

Our TechStars + Twilio "Two for One" contest enters its second week and we've already started to see some great integrations being built. Here are a couple examples of the APIs a few TechStars companies offer that you could integrate with Twilio for your entry. StatsMix StatsMix is a powerful platform that allows people to aggregate metrics across services into... Continue reading

Everyone has heard radio call in contests where the 10th caller wins a new CD (remember those?) or concert tickets to see Justin Bieber. Some of you may have even participated in one or two. I know I have. I'd get a busy signal and hit redial until I either won or wore out the keys on my phone. Back... Continue reading

Hi, my name is Brian Levine and I have recently joined Twilio as a Developer Evangelist, focused on the West Coast. I have had fun creating Twilio applications and am delighted to join the team, and to share my knowledge and experience with other developers. My first Twilio project A couple of years ago I posted a for sale ad... Continue reading

With the new year upon us, many developers are undertaking new startup projects. It's at this critical early stage in development where the right guidance can make a big difference in the direction your newfound company takes. David Cohen, Co-founder and CEO of TechStars, is no stranger to helping companies get launched. Through TechStars, David, the rest of the TechStars... Continue reading

We've previously written about Kynetx during the Twilio + Kynetx contest which was won by Julian Gay. For those that are unfamiliar, Kynetx is a platform for building real-time apps in the cloud. Twilio is one of many integration points you can add to your Kynetx apps. The crew over there has been on fire writing Twilio apps on the... Continue reading

This morning TechCrunch broke the story of the first 3 investments made by Twilio Fund, a micro-fund created by Dave McClure's 500Startups investment company. We're excited to announce Order Mapper, Textaurant, and Voicendo have each received funding from the Twilio Fund. Congratulations to Jim Bricker, Dan Pickett, Josh Bob, Garrett Wilson and all their team members! To read more about... Continue reading

We've had so many great contest entries this year, we wanted to open things up and finish the year right. For this developer contest, the category is "Anything Goes!" We've also lined up an extra special prize for you. Is there a Twilio-powered app you've wanted to build all year but didn't get a chance to? Are you looking for... Continue reading

Kunal Batra is a co-founder of Social Roots, a rate and review site for Indians in the USA. Social Roots recently created a calling card promotion, using Twilio minutes as an incentive for users of Social Roots to write reviews on the site. The minutes can be used to place calls to India for free. Every new user gets 15... Continue reading

One of the great things about REST is that all you need to know to use it is how to speak HTTP. It is the ultimate cross-platform technology as near every language or framework can make web requests these days. As an example of this, Laurent Luce has written a Twilio API wrapper in C++. Laurent is a software engineer... Continue reading

There's been a lot of momentum lately around so-called "push" technologies. HTML5 and WebSockets are starting to gain steam. Modern mobile operating systems have powerful push notification APIs. Server-side technologies like node.js are also hitting their stride with mainstream developers. For this week's Twilio developer contest we want to see the best application that uses both Twilio and some form... Continue reading

A couple weeks ago we had an SMS contest that was won by Traffic Amigo. We also selected two runners up for the contest that have won $100 in Twilio credit. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you Gourmious and Pushr. Gourmious by Laurent Luce It is difficult to find great restaurant dishes close to you, especially when you don't... Continue reading

Traffic Amigo is a simple service that sends you scheduled traffic accident updates via SMS. It was created by Daniel McOrmond and has won the Twilio SMS contest. Congratulations Daniel! For his efforts, Daniel has won a Kindle 3G, a $50 Amazon gift card and $100 in Twilio credit. To get started with Traffic Amigo, you provide a phone number,... Continue reading

At Startup Weekend Twin Cities in November, Eric Brandes and his team developed a new take on online dating and were selected as the winner for the event. Eric tells about where the idea came from, how they got started and what's in the future for DuelingDates.com. The original idea for a double dating website was something that had been... Continue reading